SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Dec 12 – Ghislaine
Maxwell,
charged with
sex
trafficking
and other
charges, faces
a November 29,
2021 trial today, after
the
November 23
final-final
pre trial conference,
vlog here.
On October 29
and again on November 12
Maxell
and the US
Attorney's
Office for the
Southern
District of
New York filed
a flurry of
motions in
limine,
heavily
redacted; the
Government
argued that
trial exhibits
are not public
and will be
withheld.
Inner City
Press opposed
and opposes
the continued
secrecy.
On
the morning of
December 10,
Annie Farmer
testified on
direct and the
cross
examination
started. Inner
City Press
live tweeted
it, podcast here,
8:55 am live
stream here
Next
on December
10, leading to
the US resting
of its case,
Annie Farmer
was cross
examined, then
her
ex-boyfriend
and mother
testified.
Inner City
Press live
tweeted it here,
podcast here,
stand-up,
GMax
sister -
and circus
On
Sunday,
December 12
the US
Attorney's
office filed a
letter
with Judge
Nathan seeking
an order to
get the
defense
witness list
by December 13
at 10 am - but
it would all
be under seal,
and the Press
letter
challenging it
has yet be
docketed: "The
Government
respectfully
submits this
letter seeking
an order
directing the
defense to
provide the
Government
with the
witnesses it
anticipates
calling next
week by 10:00
a.m. tomorrow,
December 13,
2021.1 The
Government
previewed for
several days
prior to the
close of the
Government’s
case that it
would rest
sometime last
week.
Following the
close of the
Government’s
case, the
Government
requested that
the defense
provide the
Government
with Rule 26.2
material,
along with “a
list of
witnesses, and
an order of
the first
witnesses.”
Tr. 2276. The
Court ordered
the defense to
do so,
stating, “Yes.
You’ll do
that.” ... 2
The Government
moves to file
this exhibit
under seal,
consistent
with the
Court’s prior
ruling that
the
Government’s
witness list
is identifying
as to
individuals
who would
testify under
pseudonyms and
individuals
who have not
yet testified.
Tr. 1697."
Full letter on
Patreon here.
On Saturday
December 11,
the US
Attorney's
office
submitted a
proposed
limiting
instruction
for the phone
books -
redacted, of
course. Letter
on Patreon here. It follows Judge
Nathan's order
including that
Alessi
"testified
that the
directories he
observed
contained: “a
list of
alphabetical
order of all
the people,
friends and
families and
business with
Mr. Epstein
and Ms.
Maxwell,” id.
at 828; Jane’s
contact
information in
particular,
id. at 848-49;
and “a page
with the
massages—massage
therapists for
Palm Beach."
Watch this.
From
Dec 10:
...Maxwell's
lawyer
Menninger: You
don't know if
Maxwell was
aware whether
Maria would
travel to New
Mexico, do
you? And when
Annie was in
Thailand you
were in
Germany,
correct?
Swain: Yes.
Menninger: No
further
questions.
AUSA: The
government
rests.
On
November 23
there was a
final final
pre-trial
conference and
Inner City
Press live
tweeted it here
(podcast
here)
Likewise,
Inner City
Press opposes
censorship by
the UN, which
after it asked
why UN
Sec-Gen
Antonio
Guterres' head
of Partnerships
Amir Dossal
was
on the board
of Maxwell's
Terramar Foundation
was roughed up
and banned
from the UN,
summary here,
Quinn
Emanuel lawyers'
letter Q&A
here.
On October 29,
after the flurry of redacted
motions, Inner City Press
filed formal requests with
SDNY District Judge Alison J.
Nathan, on DocumentCloud here.
On
November 12, while Maxwell and
DOJ still redacting and a
notice that after 50 people,
no more would be admitted even
on November 15, Inner City
Press filed again. This time,
both letters were docketed -
appreciated - but denied,
letter on CourtListener here.
"ENDORSED LETTER
as to Ghislaine Maxwell
addressed to Judge Alison J.
Nathan from Matthew Russell
Lee, dated 10/29/2021, re:
timely opposition to blanket
requests to seal portions of
motions in limine, trial
exhibits, public access.
ENDORSEMENT: The Court
received the attached letters
via email. This District no
longer permits public access
by telephone for in-court
criminal proceedings,
including trials. The
memorandum can be found here.
The Courts public access
orders for all proceedings in
the case can be found here.
The Court has implemented a
procedure for docketing
filings with proposed
redactions and is ruling on
the proposals as expeditiously
as possible. See Dkt. No. 401.
SO ORDERED. (Signed by Judge
Alison J. Nathan on
11/12/2021)."
On October 18 the US
Attorney's Office opposed the
request, saying the the voir
dire questions should be asked
by Judge Nathan, and that
there should only be sidebars
on "sensitive questions such
as those that relate to sexual
abuse and media exposure."
Full letter on Patreon here.
In a
conference on October 21 on
that as scheduling issues,
Judge Nathan denied the
request to seal. Inner City
Press live tweeted it
here (podcast here)
On October 22 the
draft jury questionnaire was
unsealed and Inner City Press
has immediately published it
on its DocumentCloud here,
including "Have you or a
family member ever supported,
lobbied, petitioned,
protested, or worked in
any other manner for or
against any laws, regulations,
or organizations relating to
sex trafficking, sex crimes
against minors, sex abuse or
sexual harassment?" Photo here.
After the death of Jeffrey
Epstein in the MCC prison, on
July 2 Acting US Attorney for
the SDNY Audrey Strauss
announced and unsealed in
indictment of Maxwell on
charges including sex
trafficking and perjury.
Inner City Press went to her
press conference at the US
Attorney's Office and asked,
Doesn't charging Maxwell with
perjury undercut any ability
to use testimony from her
against other, bigger
wrong-doers? Periscope here
at 23:07.
Strauss
replied that it is not
impossible to use a perjurer's
testimony. But how often does
it work?
At 3:30 pm
on July 2 Maxwell appeared in
the U.S. District Court for
the District of New Hampsire,
before Magistriate Judge Andrea
K. Johnstone.
Inner City
Press live
tweeted it
here.
(Also
live tweeted
bail denial of
July 14, here.)
In
the July 3 media coverage of
Maxwell, media all of the
world used a video and stills
from it of Maxwell speaking in
front of a blue curtain, like
here.
What they
did not mention is something
Inner City Press has been
asking the UN about, as under
UNSG Antonio Guterres with his
own sexual exploitation issues
(exclusive video
and audio)
it got roughed up and banned
from the UN: Ghislaine Maxwell
had a ghoulish United Nations
press conference, under the
banner of the "Terramar
Project," here.
On July 5,
after some crowd-sourcing,
Inner City Press reported on
another Ghislaine Maxwell use
of the United Nations,
facilitated by Italy's
Permanent Representative to
the UN, UN official Nikhil
Seth and Amir Dossal,
who also let into the UN and
in one case took money from
convicted UN briber Ng Lap
Seng, and Patrick Ho of CEFC
China Energy, also linked to
UN Secretary General Antonio
Guterres.
At the
Ghislaine Maxwell UN event,
the UN Deputy Secretary
General was directly involved.
List of (some of)
the participants on Patreon here.
Inner City
Press has published a phone of
Maxwell in the UN with Dossal,
here. But the connection runs
deeper: Dossal with "25 years
of UN involvement" was on
Terrarmar's board of
directors, one of only five
directors, only three not
related to Maxwell by blood
and name.
The directors:
Ghislaine Maxwell, Christine
Malina-Maxwell, Steven Haft,
Christine Dennison and... Amir
Dossal. Inner City Press is
publishing this full 990 on
Patreon here.
Dossal has
operated through the UN Office
of Partnership, with Antonio
Guterres and his deputy Amina
J. Mohammed, here.
And the links to
the world of UN bribery,
including Antonio Guterres
through the Gulbenkian
Foundation, runs deeper. More
to follow.
Antonio Guterres
claims he has zero tolerance
for sexual exploitation, but
covers it up and even
participate in it. He should
be forced to resign - and/or
have immunity waived.
Terramar
has been dissolved, even
though Maxwell's former
fundraiser / director of
development Brian Yurasits
still lists the URL on his
(protected) Twitter profile,
also here.
But now
Inner City Press has begun to
inquire into Ghislaine
Maxwell's other United Nations
connections, starting with
this photograph of another
day's (or at least another
outfit's) presentation in the
UN, here.
While co-conspirator Antonio
Guterres has had Inner City
Press banned from any entry
into the UN for two years and
a day, this appears to be in
the UN Economic and Social
Council (ECOSOC) chamber.
We'll have more on this, and
on Epstein and the UN. Watch
this site.
The case
is US v. Maxwell, 20-cr-330
(Nathan).
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